Support: Fragment of a white marble panel, broken off at left, above and below (w: 0.16 × h: 0.195 × d: 0.045).

Layout: Inscribed on the face with a vacat between name and father's name, forming columns.

Letters: 0.01-0.013 very carefully cut, with large serifs and varying spaces between letters, so that the total width is the same at each line; slightly smaller circular letters; xi with central hasta; rho with very small loop; large and non-slanting sigma.

Date: Beginning of first century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1993 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 1877. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1993 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---], [---] fils d'Apoll[---], [---] fils de Theud[---], [---] fils d' Hagèsistratos, [---] fils d'Eirènaios, [---] fils d'Aristoboulos, [---] fils de Sôdamos, [---] fils de Peisis, [---] fils de Theudotos, [---] fils de Dexilas, [---] fils de [---]ios, [---].

English translation

[---], [---] son of Apoll[---], [---] son of Theud[---], [---] son of Hagesistratos, [---] son of Eirenaios, [---] son of Aristoboulos, [---] son of Sodamos, [---] son of Peisis, [---] son of Theudotos, [---] son of Dexilas, [---] son of [---]ios, [---].

Italian translation

[---], [---] figlio di Apoll[---], [---] figlio di Theud[---], [---] figlio di Hagesistratos, [---] figlio di Eirenaios, [---] figlio di Aristoboulos, [---] figlio di Sodamos, [---] figlio di Peisis, [---] figlio di Theudotos, [---] figlio di Dexilas, [---] figlio di [---]ios, [---].

Commentary

This might belong to a list of ephebes dedicating to Hermes and Heracles the names of their officers. But there are also other possibilities.

All names are already attested at Cyrene, but for Δεξίλας, a semantic variant of the already attested Δεξίδαμος.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr131200 List of names

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr131200 List of names

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